To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under the sun.
- - - Ecclesiastes 3:1

Saturday, May 08, 2004

My Mom

I want to celebrate Mother's Day by giving bloggy thanks and honor to my mother.

Though we're very different in our interests, our politics, and our religion, we're also very alike in many ways.

We enjoy each other's company and acknowledge that an intelligent person may think differently than we do.

The differences make life interesting. I learned that from my mother.

Something else I learned from watching my mother live her life:

There will be bad times. Really bad times.
Sometimes they get worse before they get better.
When the bad times happen, you do what you need to do for as long as you need to do it.
Knowing there will be bad times makes the good times all the sweeter.
Good times or bad times, life is rarely dull.

A few other important things I learned from my mother:

Keep growing.
Keep learning new things.
Stay interested in the world.
Dance!
(Actually, she's the only one of us who dances. But the general concept of "keep moving" is something I learned from mom.)